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Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong

3rd. March, 1911.

12 APR 11

H. E. Sir F. Lugard, K.C.M.G., &c.,

Governor, of Hongkong.

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A suggestion was made by Mr. Hough

that a medal should be struck, specially for distribution among the

children of the Colony, in gun metal, and that Her Majesty the

Queen should be asked to select the ribbon. The Committee did not

come to any conclusion on the subject, partly in view of the cost

of the die. It occurs to me that the same idea may be suggested

in other Colmies, and that possibly the cost of the dis might be

shared. Would Your Excellency very kindly communicate this idea

to the Secretary of State, and he might be asked to reply by cable;

I would then lay the proposal in more definite form before the

Committee. Mr. Hough has asked me to enclose the accompanying

medal issued in 1879 in Austria which might form a model for the

die.

I was also going to make a similar

suggestion with reference to the issue of a stamp. Perhaps Your

Excelleny would ask the Secretary of State the same questions with

regard to it.

I have etc., (Sd.) F. T. Piggott,

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